I'm very certain that you can file a police report for public indecency- in fact, it should have been possible to divert the flight, contact the nearest airport and have them have police waiting there, land there and have him removed from the flight for it. Bonus in that his enabling wife would have probably gotten off the plane to try to argue with management about it.

I suggest asking your superiors about how to handle the situation in the future, or asking if hat is an appropriate way to handle it. Especially as the overwhelming majority of passengers on the plane would have known what he was doing, and to them it would have looked as if nothing was being done- which means they will probably never use that airline again.

Pick your jargon and stick with it, dude. It's either flight attendants, or steward for men and stewardess for women. /grammarnazi

I've never been on a flight where you could see the staff for more than a few seconds at a time. As far as I'm aware, on the flights I've been on, the flight attendants have their own curtained section. Surely, some further action could have been taken to make him stop, like legal charges, as someone else suggested.

Also a grammar nazi, and an English major at that. You wouldn't write an essay using the same exact term the whole time. You'd use synonyms. I see nothing wrong with OP switching up the terms. Also, that's not really a grammar thing.

Really? Do you only fly a single airline? I was on a Delta flight recently and was in the back row. The flight attendant sat right beside me, so close that she saw the game I was playing on my phone and asked me about it.